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– Yesterday, I worked through the day, then dozed and read between work and class. At class we discussed The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald and several others read from the homework featuring different POVs. The I stopped at Spain for awhile, and headed home.

As it turns out, the official City of Flint website lifted their Quick Facts page directly from a draft of the Wikipedia article, particularly the part I wrote my self. The code is open, so I have no objection to the usage, but it’s ironic that the description is not limited to positive reportage, and that they didn’t take the extra step of factchecking the article.

“I think it will take shutting this country down.” – Marguerite Elder

The run down is here.

Update #5 is:
The Flint Journal: Angry workers map out moves.
The Flint Journal: 350 attend UAW rally.

Not much to say… just watch and wait and see if this tropical depression becomes a hurricane.

– Yesterday, I worked until 4 AM, then went to sleep for four hours.

PICTURE OF THE DAY
A prehistoric rendering of intergalactic travel? Nope, it’s just a stromatolite.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Do you believe in UFOs? Either way, shore up your opinion.

– DREAMS – I had strange dreams last night. This might be because I just got three decent night sleeps in a row. Can’t remember the last time that’s happened.
– I’m eight days from being finished with the semester.

The army simmers in the December steam. It will coalesce in the cities, coming out of front porches and down the side streets to converge in civic centers and central business districts before marching out along the most important roads.

– Entries have been short due to the impending end of the semester.
– WEEKEND – On Friday, Jess and I stayed in, making cheeseburgers and watching our O.C. DVD Special Features. We needed this downtime because the rest of the weekend was running on a different agenda.

” But rather than walking off a cliff in full fury, these union members would be better off letting a bankruptcy judge decide what their compensation should be in an atmosphere of labor peace.” – Flint Journal editorial, 12/9/2005

The run down is here.

I’m getting kind of tired of the some of the New York Times political cartoons.

Not Jeff Danziger, Doonesbury, Tom Toles, or Ben Sergeant who are consistantly awesome (and liberal).

Not Pat Oliphaunt who’s keen but left us with the idiotic “Scalito” cartoon for a week.

– Ahh, yesterday. Work went well. I came home. I was less uniformly succesful getting work done than I had hoped, though I did succeed as finishing the very-gothic Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro (Remains of the Day).